Quotes on Ghouls

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world